 See, for most of history, as Holland described in his book Dominion, the idea that humans have self-evident rights to life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness or something like that would have just been baffling. As he put it, a Roman would have laughed at it. And yet today, that kind of rights language is central to how we conceive of our life together. It was at the heart of the United Nations 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.